Chapter 36: Failure in Refining

Chapter 36: Failure in Refining

As soon as the Soul Nourishing Pill entered his stomach, Chen Lin felt a warm and cozy sensation, as if his entire body was filled with warmth.

Especially, he felt a sense of "expansion," but upon checking his body, he didn't notice any changes.

Chen Lin's heart was filled with joy.

It seemed that this pill was indeed capable of nourishing and strengthening his soul, and he didn't even need to split his soul, so the medicinal effects wouldn't be wasted and would be fully absorbed by him.

He didn't know much about the knowledge of the soul, only that it was beneficial, but he didn't know what specific benefits it brought.

However, that didn't matter; as long as it was beneficial, that was enough.

After calming himself, Chen Lin followed the instructions in the soul-splitting secret technique. He pretended to inject his soul's power into the talisman, and continued to refine it.

Outside the courtyard.

Lu Li's eyes were fixed on the room, his heartstrings tied to Chen Lin's every move, his hand unconsciously clenched.

The Soul-Restraining Talisman was extremely important to him, and it was also very difficult to refine.

He couldn't find many talisman masters willing to help him, because even with the Soul Nourishing Pill, it would still cause irreversible damage to the soul. Those few famous talisman masters would never agree to refine it.

And if he couldn't get the Soul-Restraining Talisman, his treasure would be unable to recover its function, greatly reducing his strength.

At this critical moment, a decrease in strength was equivalent to an increase in the risk of death.

"Whoosh!"

The talisman paper in front of Chen Lin suddenly burst into a ball of black flames, once again ending in failure.

Lu Li's eyes seemed to be about to spew out fire as well.

Ye Jingyun glanced at him, didn't say a word, but pressed down on her flying sword, preventing Lu Li from losing control and harming Chen Lin.

Chen Lin's face, however, remained expressionless.

This failure was within his expectations, because he hadn't followed the standard refining method to draw the talisman pattern.

He had never intended to refine the talisman in the first place!

Even if someone had the luck of heaven, they wouldn't be able to refine everything successfully every time; they would occasionally fail.

He wasn't willing to waste his own things, so he might as well waste someone else's. Lu Li, that big fool, was the perfect target.

With Ye Jingyun around, Lu Li couldn't do anything to him, and he would be leaving the city in a few days anyway. What did he care about the Five Great Families?

Moreover, the Soul Nourishing Pill had already been eaten, and he couldn't spit it out. The mid-grade flying sword was tempting, but it wouldn't greatly increase his strength, since he wasn't a sword cultivator who focused on sword control.

Thinking this, he continued to refine the talisman multiple times.

Without exception, all of them ended in failure.

Even if his age was almost as old as Ye Jingyun's father, and even if they were both Qi Refining cultivators, he would still acknowledge Ye Jingyun as his master.

The more connections he had, the more chances he had to survive, and he wouldn't worry about anything else.

As for Chen Lin's gesture of acknowledging Ye Jingyun as his master, Ye Jingyun neither accepted nor rejected it, but instead turned around and returned to Yu Yuehai's room.

Chen Lin stood there for a while, then returned to his room with a thoughtful expression.

In the room, he sat for a while, still unable to understand Ye Jingyun's intentions, and finally let out a bitter laugh, deciding not to think about it anymore.

Ye Jingyun was clearly plotting something, or else she wouldn't be so concerned about him, but Ye Jingyun didn't explain, and he couldn't guess, so he could only take things one step at a time.

Shaking his head to clear his mind, he began to refine the Soul Nourishing Pill's medicinal effects.

This pill was something he had never heard of, and its value shouldn't be low, so he couldn't waste it.

After refining the pill, he felt refreshed and clear-headed, with a sense of weightlessness.

However, this feeling didn't last long and soon returned to normal.

After checking, he didn't find any changes in himself and began to continue refining the Enlightenment Pill and Thunderbolt Bead.

He had originally planned to refine some Initial Yuan Pill, but he didn't have enough materials, and even with his true abilities, he couldn't refine it, so he had to give up.

The materials for the Thunderbolt Bead were still very cheap, and he had bought a lot.

Moreover, as he refined more and more, he surprisingly encountered several instances where he succeeded without relying on his innate abilities.

"Could it be that eating too many Enlightenment Pills has opened up my mind?"

Chen Lin, who had completely lost hope in his innate abilities, was extremely surprised and delighted.

Additionally, apart from the increased success rate, he had also gained a deeper understanding of the Thunderbolt Bead's source power and could modify and simplify the spell array, even managing to superimpose two balanced spell arrays on a single material, making it more stable.

Suddenly, an idea flashed through his mind.

"Is it possible to use a completed Thunderbolt Bead as a material and re-refine it into a more powerful stacked version of the Thunderbolt Bead?"

This idea made Chen Lin's heart race, and he immediately took out several Thunderbolt Beads and a pile of neutral materials.

After carefully pondering for a while, he felt that the theory should be sound.

The Thunderbolt Bead utilized the mutual impact force between materials to produce an explosion, and a completed Thunderbolt Bead could be seen as an unstable material. He just didn't know if his researched spell array stacking method could maintain the stability of such intense power.

As for the correct refining method, it should also be fine.

He could just follow the previous method, which he had already mastered.

The rest would depend on his innate abilities.